National Archives inspector general probes Sherrill military records release

The Acting Inspector General of National Archives Will Brown launches an investigation into the launch of the non -classified military records of Mickey Sherrill on her Republican opponent’s ally, Jacques Seatarley.

While Sherrill spent last week Accusing the Trump administration From the illegal conspiracy against her party campaign, a spokeswoman for the archives and national records said that the violation was “accomplished by an employee in Nara, a technician at the National Personnel Records Center in Saint Lewis.”

“We have launched an internal investigation to understand how and why the standard operating procedures have not been followed, and we also asked the National Archives to launch an investigation as well,” said a spokesman for the National Archives of Fox News Digital. “Although the investigation is continuing, there is no current indicator that the version was intended by the employee or the request. While the errors are rare, it occurs because NPRC addresses more than 6000 requests per day.”

However, nearly a week ago, Sherrill maintained that the breach was “not a mistake.” Democrats Supervising the House of Representatives Confirm the investigation On Tuesday, it was framing as “an investigation into the Trump administration that illegally interferes in the New Jersey Ruler’s race.”

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The democratic candidate for the ruler, Mickey Sherrill from New Jersey, wants to question on Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Lawsville, New Jersey (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

“Jack needs full cooperation with investigators and the full range of his campaign to participate in this illegal procedure,” he accused Sherrill in response to the national archives that made an official investigation.

Chris Russell, a spokesman for the Seatarley campaign on Tuesday, urged her to “stop hiding and release her disciplinary records.”

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“The despair of the Sherrill campaign is here,” Russell told Fox News Digital in a statement. “They are flat lying about this internal investigation in Nara, who has nothing to do with our campaign in an attempt to distract attention away from the increasing possibility that cannot be explained to Congress of Congress Sherrill about what she got from graduation. Sherrill’s return to issue her repressive records can only be explained as trying to hide the truth from voters in NJ.”

“The illegal disclosure of my military records of my opponent is not just an attack against me; it is an attack on all the old warriors who served this country. New Jersey deserves better. It deserves the leaders who protect our rights; not those who break the law to score political points,” One of several phrases Conclusion of breach.

The Ciattarelli Fox News Digital campaign told Nicholas de Gregory, a non -participating friend, “submitted a request for freedom law Sherrill’s military background On its own.

A spokesman for the National Archives said that the leadership became familiar with rags on September 22, after the technician made the records by mistake while responding to the request of the Freedom of Information Law on June 30.

The national archives said that the technician who responded to De Gregorio’s request about Sherrill’s military record “should not have issued the entire record”, which included special information such as the social security number.

Republican Jacques Seatarelli addresses the crowd during the first ruler discussion in the general elections on Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

The agency apologized for violating privacy and committed to the responsibility of its employees.

While Sherrill blames a breach of “Trump’s political weapons of the federal government,” a fire employee, a technician based in Saint Louis, who said the national archive spokesman said that Corill’s personal information was mistaken, is not a political appointment.

With less than five weeks until election day, the debate of the national archives stimulated a really controversial race to replace the governor of the state, Phil Murphy, who is occupied this year, in a state garden.

Wipe Fox News Among the voters in New Jersey, who were released on Tuesday, Sherrill has found ahead of Seatarili with eight percentage points between potential voters (50-42 %) and seven points between the largest sample of registered voters (48-41 %), with both threads outside the margin of sampling error.

Republican candidate Jacques Seataraili, the left, is walking with the democratic candidate of the ruler Mickey Sherrill, to the right, before discussing Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Democrats were quick to blame the national archives of the Trump administration with the outbreak of news last week.

“The Trump administration’s privacy violation is a slap in the face of the members of the nation of our courageous nation. It is a shameful order,” former MP, Abyel Spanberger, a former Virginia governor’s candidate in Virginia, He said Thursday.

The National Democratic Committee (DNC) condemned the Trump administration when they claimed to be a “decision” to release the documents, although the national architect official confirms that he was the low -level Saint Louis branch employee responsible for “not following the appropriate administrative procedures.”

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“the Trump administration decision The release of the files of the unrestricted military personnel to its opponent’s campaign, including the social security number, is another example of Donald Trump and the Republicans who illegally making the federal government for political purposes, “” DNC Martin president, while the breach is called a “stoked scandal” that shows a few Donald Trump Trump and Jack Seatarili for the US military. “

Fox News Dana Blanton contributed to this report.